Kind Old Lady. "I see there is an urgent appeal for more literature for our fighting men. I thought some lonely soldier or sailor might like to revive memories of the dear homeland with this volume of the Post Office Directory for 1899."
From the description of a polar-bear's escapade in the Edinburgh "Zoo":—
"The keepers now appeared, and with the assistance of gun-firing and much noise the animal was quietly shepherded back to its accustomed place of confinement."
North British Agriculturist.
"Quietly" was a happy thought.